Quotes About Opportunities

Thus, the advice of "work toward your ten thousand hours" sounds completely reasonable. Right? But there's a problem. There are millions of people that work incredibly hard, yet have little success to show for it. Is ten thousand hours too simple of a prescription for greatness? Yes. It overlooks another aspect of great achievement that cannot be ignored: opportunities—conditions that often appear to be plain old dumb luck. -

Opportunities are whispers, not foghorns. If we can't hear their soft rhythms—if we are too busy rushing about, waiting for thunderclaps of revelation, inspiration, and certainty—or if we can spot them but can't nurture them into real advantages, then we might as well be blind to them.

we may not be built for the NFL or Kentucky Derby, but we're surrounded by opportunities every day, everywhere we go. There is no shortage of problems to be solved, needs and desires to be fulfilled, and innovative ways to help others.

Most opportunities never announce themselves with trumpets and confetti. They're easily missed, mistaken, or squandered. They can be scary. And they never come with a 110% money-back guarantee. They're often nothing more than chances to improve on something other people are already doing. Opportunities are whispers, not foghorns.

the opportunities presented to one are just as important to success as one's own inherent talents and willingness to put in thousands of hours of work.

in many ways, the opportunities presented to one are just as important to success as one's own inherent talents and willingness to put in thousands of hours of work.

There are millions of people that work incredibly hard, yet have little success to show for it. Is ten thousand hours too simple of a prescription for greatness? Yes. It overlooks another aspect of great achievement that cannot be ignored: opportunities—conditions that often appear to be plain old dumb luck.

A shortsighted person can do little more than follow the road she's on; someone blessed with clear sight sees all the turnoffs she could take—and numerous alternate paths besides, running parallel to the one beneath her feet. One is only lost when one has some perception, no matter how dim, that there is somewhere else one should be.

I'm not sure anybody's ready to see me in a drama. And loving movies so much, I've seen a lot of comics try to make that transition too fast, and it can be detrimental. And I don't think I've had as much success as I need in the comedy genre to open up those opportunities.

Meditation is both the symbol and expression of our intention to grow. Sitting still, alone with our thoughts and feelings, we can honor missed opportunities, passing desires, remembered disappointments, as well as our inner strength, personal wisdom, and ability to forgive and love.

I definitely have found a balance. I've had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it.

I'm not one of those actors where filmmakers that I admire ask me to be in their movies. I meet them at parties and they're nice to me, but they never ask me to work with them.

Sometimes it is best to keep one's advantages close.

Now we have to contend with overstimulation and too many opportunities all the time, and too many decisions all the time.

Hollywood, that whole industry, is a lot like a really small town. You bump into the same people all the time. I think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon can be played with anyone and everyone in Hollywood.

No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty greedy.

The big problem is time. I don't have enough of it to do all the things I think about doing.

I'm not turning my back on classical theater. It's all about opportunities and timing a lot of the time when things come up.

I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period.

Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Never over book yourself fearing to miss out on opportunities.Be honest with yourself and how you use your time.

You don't just luck into things. ... You build step by step whether it's friendships or opportunities.

Most of the critical things in life which become the starting points of human destiny are little things.

People who stay unemployed for a long time start to look like damaged goods, and they don't get such good offers. Also, they're not learning anything. Most learning is on-the-job learning.